What I Let Go of during Week 3 of the 30 Day Minimalism Game

Alright, let's be honest here. This is getting HARD!! While the first 2 weeks were moderately easy... this third week is when the pedal hit the metal. This week required both my partner and I to do some serious decluttering.

Day 15

First up... we have 1 game, 3 puzzles and 1 meat grinder. 

We also got rid of a stack of egg cartons... 4 of them (yes I am counting them individually... this was a hard week!)

A bag of cloth masks that I bought as part of an SPCA fundraiser during the first months of the pandemic. We all know how cloth masks turned out... so 6 masks.

All for a grand total of 15... I should also mention here that, as the week progressed, we got rid of a bunch of gluten stuff (vital wheat gluten, real bread crumbs, dried bread, couscous, farro, etc) none of which made the photo cut. So if this week seems a bit skimpy... add that in here!

Day 16

This was a solid day... 5 picture frames, 1 black tub, 1 candle holder, 3 binders, 2 bags beading supplies, 1 guest book, 1 sachet of weird tea, 1 set of three movie posters and 1 empty Body shop box. Seeee... coulda counted those movie posters as 3 but... didn't need that today.

Day 17

Note to self... write all this out as I am taking the pic because... this is hard from the photos!! Today we have: 1 set of mugs, 1 bath salts, 1 beading kit, 1 lunchbox, 1 stained glass hanger, 1 candy sucker, 1 empty phone box, 1 set silver boxlets, 1 gold Christmas decoration, 1 pair pic frames, 1 bundle of Christmas jewelry, 1 key ring, 1 baggie beading supplies, 1 tin, 1 bag weird lip balm, 2 yellow mystery objects, 1 incense box. (I could have broken out the jewelry bits - 4 of them - but I can also assign them to Day 15 too!)

Day 18

Another challenging day... 3 small frames, 1 pic holder, 5 CDs, 2 boxes bagua mirrors (in two boxes), 1 packet weird red candy, 1 CD, 1 packet stickers, 1 wall hanging, 1 pic frame, 2 cloth masks.

Day 19

This was another tricky one... so 4 puzzles and then... well... I'm going to have to just say this includes a bundle of paper bags (we didn't count them before they went into the recycle bin) and a variety of food stuffs that just got tossed into the green bin without photos being taken! (ugh!)

Day 20

Today was an interesting day... we are obviously rummaging through kitchen cabinets and finding all sorts of things that have been hanging around for years and that we think we will get to "some day" but... nope!

4 maple syrup bottles, 3 random glass jars, 4 coffee mugs, 3 glass jars with weird tea, 1 jar coconut oil, 1 jar fermented black garlic that a guest gave us (ick), 1 baggie weird tea, 3 big glass jars. And yes... double check and that does add up to 20! 

Day 21 

Alrightee...  2 empty plastic containers, 1 maple syrup bottle, 2 empty jars, 1 small metal jug, 1 bag mystery food item, 3 pineapple peelers (we bought them in SE Asia), 3 aluminium pie plates, 5 glass jars, 1 glass pie dish, 1 smoothie container, 1 canning jar on the pie plates that a stand-in for the couscous that we let go.

And that's a wrap on Week 3. I'm not sure how Week 4+ is going to go. We are really having to dig deep for these ones. Mind you... we still have the garden shed as a back-up and I know that there are some things in there that we can definitely shed (LOL!!).